As it turns out issue was somewhere in mysql. Not sure exactly where, but something to do to with BLOB.
Now, I changed text field from BLOB to varchar and started using mysql_real_escape_string in my php code and all started working just fine. Thanks for the help -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Failing-to-successfully-import-international-characters-via-DIH-tp1753190p1770533.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.